Chapter Thirty-Six: Is the Town Different, Because of Strange Things?
The houses on both sides of the street are rudimentary, the walls seem to be made of mud mixed with some kind of plant straw, and the eaves are hung with hay, as if the roof is only covered with a layer of hay to protect it from the sun and wind.
Several people on the street walked towards a certain earthen house together, Lin Yu stepped forward and wanted to stop them,
"Several, where is the mayor of Bingli Town?" The information that came over mentioned that the news that Lin Yu and these people would come had already been informed to the local steward, otherwise after the catastrophe of annihilation, there would be people of unknown origin coming here after just settling down, and I am afraid that they would not be trusted.
When a few people heard the sound and looked back, they only saw the empty street behind them, and they couldn't help but think of all kinds of strange monsters that could eat people, and they were frightened, and immediately ran into the nearest earthen house.
Only Lin Yu, who had already walked in front of them, was left with a black line, she was very tall, and she looked down on her short stature, although her palm-tall height was really hard to notice.
The earthen house looks like it has a door, but in fact it is just a fence made of wood, and you can see the inside of the house from the outside. Several people were holding tools that seemed to be hoes and sickles, and they were lying inside the wall and peeking out of the house.
"Ahem." Lin Yu tried to get their attention, but saw that several people quickly withdrew their observational gaze and hid.
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"Look down, I'm here, I'm here to find the mayor, no malice."
The probe secretly observed again, and this time several people finally saw her, looking at her, as if to see if she was dangerous.
A few people walked out, probably someone who had never seen her so young, and they all looked at her curiously.
Lin Yu also observed a few people, but they were small, and they could see their calves when they looked up, but the thin calves had already explained everything, this group of people was not doing well, at least they couldn't do it with enough food and clothing.
Several people didn't speak, and when they heard that Lin Yu was looking for the mayor, they just motioned for her to follow them. Later, she learned that there is a legend that some of the phantoms can transform into beautiful women, and they can charm the soul through the answers of others, but several people are still afraid to answer.
The mayor lives in the center of the street, and the houses don't look any nicer than they look around, but the doors are intact, not the fenced kind.
After knocking on the door and entering, Lin Yu saw the mayor, as expected, the mayor was a monk, although his cultivation was lower than Lin Yu's, only in the early stage of the Qi Cultivation Realm.
"Old decay greets the messenger." The mayor's surname is Qin Liyuan, and he has a childish face, although he looks old, his voice is loud and his body is tough, giving people a feeling of fairy wind and bones.
"Bingli Town has been looking forward to the envoy for a long time, and the envoy has finally arrived." The mayor looked like he had been waiting for a long time, as if she had come, and there was hope for the town.
"The mayor doesn't have to be polite, I came here on orders, and I need more support from the mayor during this time."
"Yes, yes, the messenger came from afar, presumably the journey is tiring, I will arrange a place for the messenger to live first." Lin Yu's residence is naturally also an earthen house, and it is on the edge of the town.
"Alas, snub the messenger, I really don't have a better house in Bingli Town, and I have wronged the messenger."
The mud hut looked simple from the outside, but it was no better from the inside, with potholed walls, hay on the ground, mud beds, and no tables, chairs, and furniture.
However, Lin Yu naturally couldn't say anything bad, and she originally thought that she would have to sleep in the wilderness and lead a group of people to develop from scratch, and now it is good to be able to prepare a house for her, and she is not a human body, so she can live in the green jade bowl on weekdays.
After leaving 'if there is something to order', the mayor of the town said goodbye and left, leaving Lin Yu standing at the door thoughtfully.
The fields where food is grown, but no one takes care of them, perhaps because the farming is not busy. In a small town with one street, only a few people go out, and they are panicked and scared, which may be unsettled.
These can be explained, but the mayor's attitude towards her is not clear, so it is worth thinking about it. said that he was not welcome, but he was very enthusiastic, complimented her, and arranged for her to stay. But if she was welcome to come and help, he didn't say anything about business, neither the situation in the town nor the townspeople.
Although I want to do something to help the people here, I still have to be vigilant, and the so-called defensive heart is indispensable, and it is beneficial and harmless to have a defensive heart.
Since this Qin Mayor asked her to rest first, Lin Yu also decided to wait and see what happened to him for the time being, and at the same time to study the spells passed down by the previous Heavenly Immortal, as well as the information about the mission imprinted by the Earth Immortal with his divine sense.
Naturally, the information was not only about the map and the arrangements for them, but also about the dangers that might appear in the Yellow Sand Realm now, that is, the demonic phantoms that had not yet died, and the demonic energy that remained after the death of the Heavenly Demon.
Demonized phantoms are very aggressive, cruel and bloodthirsty, and will attack all living beings they see, but they still retain the magic before the demonization, and they have very strange abilities, and their strength is not weak.
And the heavenly demon is formless and formless, saying that it is a kind of creature in the universe, but in fact, it is more like a spiritual body, and it is good at leading people to degenerate and chaotic thinking, like the kind of virus. Their remaining demonic energy retains the characteristics of their lifetime, and once someone comes into contact with it, their souls will be polluted, and they will also become evil and weird, as if they have been borrowed by the heavenly demons to be reborn.
Knowing himself and knowing that he will not be defeated in a hundred battles, Lin Yu is learning about the information in detail in the sea of knowledge, just in case. Until the next day, Mayor Qin came to visit.
"Alas, I'm ashamed, I wanted the envoy to rest more, but Bingli Town really couldn't wait, so the old man had to take the liberty of asking the envoy to save the lives of the people in the town." Mayor Qin's eyes were slightly red, and he shook Lin Yu standing on the earthen kang to the end, and pleaded.
Lin Yu had no way to help, so he hurriedly said: "I came here to help Bingli Town, and the mayor said it was okay." ”
"Speaking of which, it was a few days ago, strange things happened in the town, no matter day or night, there were townspeople who disappeared for no reason, no one was seen alive, no corpse was dead, and the people in the town were panicked."
"The messenger may not know that we have worked hard to open up the fields outside the town, and now there are weeds in the fields, and it is the time to weed and take care of the fields, but with this strange thing, everyone can only hide at home, and dare not go out. I couldn't find out the reason for my poor cultivation, so I had no choice but to ask the messenger for help. ”
In this way, the few abnormalities that Lin Yu suspected yesterday seemed to be clear, no one in the field was because something had happened, and everyone was panicked, so they hid at home and few people went out. The mayor didn't mention the matter yesterday because he wanted her to rest more, but the matter was urgent, so he had the cheekiness to bother her today.
"It's a matter of duty." Lin Yu naturally responded, this was not only her task, but also the strength she wanted to help the people here.
However, what is going on, we have to explore to know, she will not just listen to the mayor's words, after all, she is unfamiliar with this place, I don't know what the mayor's character is, and it was emphasized in the mission that the hidden dangers left by the heavenly demons are still there, everything is unknown.
Lin Yu and the mayor went out and walked around the town together to see if there were any clues, if there were ogre-eating demons nearby, they would naturally leave traces.
The town is too small, a street runs through the whole town, and this street is less than a mile, there are ten rows of earthen houses on each side, counting the alleys and aisles left in the middle, plus some houses are idle, the whole town has less than three hundred households, and it didn't take long for the two of them to walk through, but no abnormalities were found.
"Mayor Qin, since there are no traces in the town, why don't we go outside the town and take a look." Lin Yu saw Mayor Qin's hesitant steps, and seemed to stop talking, and directly proposed.
"Alas, the hard messenger."
Although Lin Yu couldn't see his expression, he could imagine that he looked ashamed and embarrassed to trouble her.
Shouldn't I doubt him? Maybe the anomaly in the town is really as he said, because of an accident. ’